OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Leiden Journal of International Law is 1. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-07-01 to 2025-07-01.)

Article	Citations
LJL volume 36 issue 1 Cover and Front matter	22
China in the UNCLOS and BBNJ negotiations, yesterday once more?	18
The Hawija airstrike: Reverberating effects on civilians under international humanitarian law	11
The rediscovery of the Roman jus gentium and the post 1945 international order	8
On the punitive nature of ICC reparations orders	7
LJL volume 37 issue 1 Cover and Back matter	7
Judicial Dissent at the International Criminal Court: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis	6
Jens Steffek, International Organizations as Technocratic Utopia, Oxford University Press, 2021, ISBN 9780192845573, 256pp, $100	6
The ‘imbroglio’ of ecocide: A political economic analysis	5
From soft law to hard law in business and human rights and the challenge of corporate power	5
Eradicating the exceptional: The role of territory in structuring international legal thought	5
On consular internationalism	4
Climate tipping points: Tracing the limits of political discretion	4
State responsibility in relation to military applications of artificial intelligence	4
Ukri Soirila, The Law of Humanity Project A Story of International Law Reform and State-making, Hart, 2021, 208pp, £80.00	4
Protecting concessionary rights: General principles and the making of international investment law	4
Digital evidence and fair trial rights at the International Criminal Court	4
National climate litigation and the international rule of law	4
Inter-regime conversations: What barriers persist for individuals in international law?	4
Revisiting Jessup and the imperial origins of transnational law	4
Entangled harms: A reparative approach to climate justice	4
Bibliography	4
Subsidiarity does not win cases: A mixed methods study of the relationship between margin of appreciation language and deference at the European Court of Human Rights	4
The effects of international judges’ personal characteristics on their judging	3
Seventeen men at Lake Success: In search of the International Law Commission	3

The judicial assessment of states’ action on climate change mitigation	3
LJL volume 37 issue 3 Cover and Back matter	3
LJL volume 37 issue 1 Cover and Front matter	3
LJL volume 35 issue 3 Cover and Front matter	3
A forgotten proponent of a league of nations and his contributions to international law	3
Bibliography	2
Dislodging the compulsory dispute settlement mechanism: Analysis of Article 281 of UNCLOS	2
Andrew Clapham, War, Oxford University Press, 2021, 624pp, £29.99 (pb)	2
Greening the road: China’s low-carbon energy transition and international trade regulation	2
To divide or not to divide: Innovations on liability for reparations in the Ntaganda case	2
Bibliography	2
The fragmentation of international investment and tax dispute settlement: A good idea?	2
Victim assistance under the Rome Statute: Approach and effectiveness of the Trust Fund for Victims assistance activities	2
What we talk about when we talk about ‘human shields’: Reading international law through images	2
On membership of the United Nations and the State of Palestine: A critical account	2
The powers of silence: Making sense of the non-definition of gender in international criminal law	2
Bibliography	2
Imperialism through adjudication in Latin America – ERRATUM	2
China and international law: Two tales of an encounter	2
Between the utopian imaginaries of literature and international law: The question of the insurgent child in international legal discourse and Kris Montañez’s Youth	2
Reconsidering ‘Sook Ching’ victimhood: A microhistory of Singapore’s Nishimura trial	2
The formative international law studies of Judge Shi Jiuyong	2
Legal justifications for gender parity on the bench of the International Court of Justice: An argument for evolutive interpretation of Article 9 of the ICJ Statute	2
Aldo Zammit Borda, Histories Written by International Criminal Courts and Tribunals: Developing a Responsible History Framework, T.M.C. Asser Press, 2021, 276 pp., ISBN 978-94-6265-427-3, $149.99/€119	1
Lessons to learn? Using the Inter-American Court of Human Rights’ jurisprudence on amnesties and pardons in the context of the Russo-Ukrainian War	1
Regionalism as development: The Lomé Conventions I and II (1975–1985)	1
Matthew C. Klein and Michael Pettis, Trade Wars Are Class Wars: How Rising Inequality Distorts the Global Economy and Threatens International Peace, Yale University Press, 2020, 288 pp, $28.00, ISBN:	1
The Law and Political Economy of Business and Human Rights: From governance gaps to root causes	1
Prologue to truth: Argentina’s National Commission on the Disappeared and the authority of international law	1
Beyond the machinery metaphors: Towards a theory of international organizations as machines	1
Self-judgment in international law: Between judicialization and pushback	1
The reactive model of disaster regulation in international law and its shortcomings	1
Reception, context and canonicity: The demonization, normalization and eventual proliferation of G. W. F. Hegel in international relations	1
‘Parity with all nations’: The ‘coolie’ trade and the quest for recognition by China and Japan	1
Beyond rhetoric: Interrogating the Eurocentric critique of international criminal law’s selectivity in the wake of the 2022 Ukraine invasion	1
LJL volume 36 issue 3 Cover and Back matter	1
Resistance to territorial and maritime delimitation judgments of the International Court of Justice and clashes with ‘territory clauses’ in the Constitutions of Latin American states	1
Bibliography	1
Collateral kids: Weighing the lives of children in targeting	1
Out of sight, out of mind? The proliferation of space debris and international law	1
The (un)changing face of ICJ advocacy	1
Andrew Fitzmaurice, King Leopold’s Ghostwriter: The Creation of Persons and States in the Nineteenth Century, Princeton University Press, 2021, 592pp, ISBN: 9780691148694, $39.95	1
LJL volume 34 issue 4 Cover and Front matter	1
Mandatory human rights due diligence laws in Europe: A mirage for rightsholders?	1
The concept of sustainable development in investment arbitration: A disconnect from investment policymaking and international adjudication	1
Seeing Santurbán through ISDS: A sociolegal case study of Eco Oro v. Colombia	1
The armed conflict in Gaza, and its complexity under international law: Jus ad bellum, jus in bello, and international justice	1
Bibliography	1
The role of precedent in the jurisprudence of the International Court of Justice: A constructive interpretation	1
Developments in Canada on business and human rights: One step forward two steps back	1

Legal status of abiotic resources in outer space: Appropriability, ownership, and access	1
Deciphering l’esprit d’internationalité: The 1872 Alabama arbitration and the pacifist antithesis of modern international law profession	1
The two faces of Franco-Sudanian Treaties: The peripheral practice of ratification as evidence of transregional international law in the nineteenth century	1
Legal challenges of attributing malicious cyber activities against space activities	1
Ian Johnstone and Steven Ratner (eds.), Talking International Law: Legal Argumentation Outside the Courtroom, Oxford University Press, 2021, 368pp, £80.00	1
Prometheus caged: The exiling of Napoleon and the Law of Nations, 1814–1821	1
LJL volume 35 issue 4 Cover and Front matter	1
An International Ombudsman to make non-governmental organizations more accountable? Too good to be true …	1
LJL volume 35 issue 2 Cover and Front matter	1